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Category Archives: medical writing
Toes in the Byron Bay sand
This column is delivered to you from a Byron Bay beach, where I’m relaxing after attending the inaugural Boomerang Aboriginal music festival. I point this out as a status symbol: I am hip enough to hang in Byron, cool enough … Continue reading
2013 cardiac news according to Shakespeare
In October, Medical Observer asked me to summarise 2013 research into cardiac risk factors. I discovered Shakespeare had got there first. Hearts. Don’t you just love them? Yet despite their adorable cardiac shape, they cop a whole lot of negative … Continue reading
Blogging for the already-medically-educated
The first part of the RACGP GP13 workshop in Darwin looked at tweeting for doctors and other health professionals. For those with attention spans longer than 140 characters, let’s have a look at blogging. Or, in twitter lingo: #blog4docs The journalistic … Continue reading
Tweet your way to a medical education
This workshop aims to encourage health professionals such as GPs to begin using social media as an educational tool. It was originally run at GP13, the RACGP Annual Scientific Convention in Darwin, Oct 2013. The workshop has been written by: We are happy … Continue reading
Pharma payments to doctors should be transparent
Back in the good old days, your good doctor could pop any commission from anybody into his left pantaloons pocket, and nobody would question it. These days, the public quite reasonably expects higher standards of accountability. Some would argue that doctors should … Continue reading
TGA Advertising Code needs tiger teeth
At the risk of boring readers senseless, occasionally I write submissions aimed at making the world a better place, one regulatory code at a time. All humour self-edited out, although some sarcasm sneaks through: “…it is not entirely clear why those … Continue reading
The Big Twit
Let’s start by conjugating the verb. I tweet, you twit, he twitters, we tweet, you twit, they twitter. Notice everyone is tweeting except you…you are merely a twit! Now, don’t get narky: back in my mid-forties, I was just like … Continue reading
How Archie Cochrane flipped the medical world on its head
I love the story of how Archie Cochrane, founder of the Cochrane collaboration, first gained notoriety as a very junior staff member at the massive Department of Health in London. This was recounted to me by his friend, another great … Continue reading
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Locum days
In my heady days of youth, I spent 18 months avoiding a steady job and worked as a locum. This involved a serious commitment to helping out GPs in their week of need, then running away. My CV screamed like … Continue reading
The Naked Doctor is IN
Even useful things can be overused. Sometimes in medicine, ‘doing nothing’ is the best option. Justin has had a career-long interest in the pitfalls of over diagnosis and over treatment. He has started a new blog hosted on the Croakey website. Titled the … Continue reading
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